Richard D. James a.k.a. Aphex Twin is one of the most avant-garde embodiments of electronic music, he started very young exploring and making lots of experimiments with synths, on his childhood Acid House was expanding and consolidating itself as a movement, definetly this influenced his work, but he created his own style, he made electronic music much more organic, dynamic and complex.

His music is incorrectly labeled as IDM (which means Intelligent Dance Music), for me, this label was created for those people who can’t understand this music, and they simply can’t pick up a name for futurity.

One of the most popular tracks on his catalogue was Window Licker, this track is a nice sample of how music will be in a few years, or at least I think so, in the meantime check out the video, definitely a masterpiece.

We’d announced last March the release of Chosen Lords which is just an extract of the Analord series, a compilation created for vinyl only, I’ve heard all the tracks recently and I think that AFX is going back to his roots, the saturation of TB 303 (this could be a clue of the 303 that names our blog) and TR 808 are very strong, just like in his first EP named “Analogue Bubblebath“, anyway, his new material is based on his huge experience in innovation. He blended genres like Electro, Acid House, and Techno in just one entity. It is simply the best electro album I’ve ever heard, the combination is almost impossible, morphing something very repetitive into something so organic, for those facts we think that this album deserves the album of the month award.